Mathematics Advanced

Number of Units: 2 

ATAR Category: A 

Course Fee: $40 per annum 

Description: 

The Mathematics Advanced course is a calculus-based course focused on developing student awareness of mathematics as a unique and powerful way of viewing the world to investigate order, relation, pattern, uncertainty and generality. The course provides students with the opportunity to develop ways of thinking in which problems are explored through observation, reflection and reasoning. 

The study of Mathematics Advanced in Stage 6: 

• enables students to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills in working mathematically and in communicating concisely and precisely 

• provides opportunities for students to consider various applications of mathematics in a broad range of contemporary contexts through the use of mathematical modelling and use these models to solve problems related to their present and future needs 

• provides opportunities for students to develop ways of thinking in which problems are explored through observation, reflection and reasoning 

• provides a basis for further studies in disciplines in which mathematics and the skills that constitute thinking mathematically have an important role 

• provides an appropriate mathematical background for students whose future pathways may involve mathematics and its applications in a range of disciplines at the tertiary level. 

Course requirements: 

• Course must be studied with: Nil 

• Course cannot be studied with: Mathematics Standard 

• Major work(s): Nil 

• Other course requirement(s): The Mathematics Advanced Year 11 course has been developed on the assumption that students have studied the content and achieved the outcomes of the Mathematics Years 7–10 Syllabus and in particular, the content and outcomes of all substrands of Stage 5.1 and Stage 5.2, and the following substrands of Stage 5.3: Algebraic Techniques, Surds and Indices, Equations, Linear Relationships, Trigonometry and Pythagoras’ Theorem, and Single Variable Data Analysis. Students should have studied at least some of the content from the following substrands of Stage 5.3: Non-Linear Relationships and Properties of Geometrical Figures. 

• Course fee will cover: e.g. eLearning subscriptions, consumables 

• Additional resourcing requirements for the course: NESA approved scientific calculator 

Note: this course must be studied by students wishing to study Mathematics Extension 1.